RELATIONAL SCARS PASTOR HEATHER ZEMPEL NATIONAL COMMUNITY CHURCH
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1 RELATIONAL SCARS PASTOR HEATHER ZEMPEL NATIONAL COMMUNITY CHURCH I m going to tell you a story of the first scar I ever received. I was 18 months old. At this point, my parents lived within walking distance of my grandparents, and my grandmother had come over. Now, here s the deal, we ve got to make a deal here tonight, my grandmother is horrified about this story to this day, so can we make a deal that we never tell Gran that I told you this story? Alright. Gran had come to our house, I think to get a glass baking dish she had left or something, but for whatever reason, we decided I was going back over to Gran s house to spend the rest of the day. So we are about half way between our house and Gran s house and she decided we needed to pick up the speed a little bit. Now, remember, I started running when I was about nine months old, but even my running wasn t fast enough, so my grandmother picked me up in her arms and carried me. So, in one hand she has the glass baking dishes, you know where this is going, in the other arm she has me, and it began to rain, so she picked up her speed and in her speed, she tripped and fell, the baking dishes broke, I went down and got a cut on my left hand. Eight stitches later, the only thing my grandmother could think about, and what she said for years thereafter was this, I can t believe this, someday, some wonderful young man is going to put a diamond on that finger right where there is that terrible, awful scar. And I will report today that about five years ago, Ryan Zempel did put a diamond on my finger. He had no idea the scar was there until I told him this story a week ago! If you ve got your Bibles, turn over to Acts 9 and I ll get there in a minute. A few years ago, a movie came out called Hotel Rwanda that told the story of the 1994 genocide where over a million people were slaughtered by their neighbors and their friends. The tension between the Tutsi and the Hutu had been rising for some time and it came to a head when several Hutu went out and just killed their neighbors and killed any Tutsi standing in their way. The movie tells that story and critics claim that it is one of the most inspirational movies of all time, but it doesn t tell the whole story. In 2006 there was a young filmmaker named Laura Waters who had heard that because the prison system had become so crowded because they couldn t deal with all the people involved in this, they had released 50,000 perpetrators from prison to go back to the very communities where they killed people, and the government was telling them to go confess their wrong-doings, to confess their crimes and ask forgiveness from those who were hurt or wounded. All of a sudden, Rwanda s strategy moved from justice to reconciliation and it became a very living model of what Henri Nouwen meant when he said, Community is the place where the person you least want to live with always lives. Let me repeat that, Community is the place where the person you least want to live with always lives. When I used to hear that, I used to chuckle and giggle. I d think about people that just get under my skin a little bit, maybe co-workers, Pastor Joel, are you booing and hissing at Ballston yet? I m just kidding, I love Pastor Joel. By the way, do you know that we have a new Schmidgall in the world? Yeah! Give it up for Pastor Joel and for Nina, Ezekiel Edwin Schmidgall was born Tuesday, on 3/17 at 3:17. So, I m just kidding about Pastor Joel, but you know what I m talking about. Maybe somebody in your small group or in the next cubicle and you think, yep, community is where the person I least want to live with always is. But this is like for real. I mean, think about the Rwanda woman who has lost her husband and her children, and the guy who killed them is living down the street. Think about the Tutsi pastor who lost 100 of his immediate and extended family and he is now going into the houses of those who did the killing. Laura Waters went over to see if she could ask the question, Is it possible to forgive someone who murdered members of your family? And the documentary she put together, As We Forgive, tells these amazing stories. As you see people sitting across the table from one another and the killer asking forgiveness of the very person they wounded, of the person they scarred. There is one story specifically that moves me. It is about two people, a man named Siveri and a woman named Rosaria and at one point in the film, Rosaria pulls back part of her dress and reveals mounds of scar tissue down her back and down her legs, and she and the very one who killed her sister and caused wounds in her life are finding hope in reconciliation through the power of forgiveness. At the beginning of the film, Rosaria is concerned about how she is going to harvest her crop, it s the only way she can have money to live, and Siveri is the first
2 guy who comes to help her harvest the crop. And toward the end of the film, he is helping Rosaria move into the house that he and other prisoners built. Very few of us have relational scars that run as deep as this. Very few of us have had to look across the table at someone who has killed a family member of ours or someone very close to us, but we all have relational scars, and sometimes forgiveness and healing and hope isn t even tied to how bad the scar is. The fact is, the scar is there. So this weekend, I want to talk about relational scars and how we find hope and healing. There is a story that is very similar in Acts 9:1-7. Let s dive into it. 1 Meanwhile, Saul was uttering threats with every breath and was eager to destroy the Lord s followers. So he went to the high priest. 2 He requested letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, asking for their cooperation in the arrest of any followers of the Way he found there. He wanted to bring them both men and women back to Jerusalem in chains. 3 As he was nearing Damascus on this mission, a brilliant light from heaven suddenly beamed down upon him. 4 He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me? 5 Who are you, sir? Saul asked. And the voice replied, I am Jesus, the one you are persecuting! 6 Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do. 7 The men with Saul stood speechless, for they heard the sound of someone s voice but saw no one! 8 Saul picked himself up off the ground, but when he opened his eyes he was blind. So his companions led him by the hand to Damascus. 9 He remained there blind for three days and all the time went without food and water. Now, let s talk for just a second about this guy named Saul, who we know better now as Paul. Saul was born in Tarsus as a Roman citizen but as a very devout Jew, which means at the age of 5, he was beginning to learn the writings of what we now know as the Old Testament, and at 10 years old, he went to Jerusalem to study amongst the very renowned Rabbi, Gamaliel. And at that time, Jesus was also living there, in what we might call his obscure years. And Saul is a Jew of Jews. I mean, he was a very religious man. There was a prayer he prayed every day that said, God thank you that I am Jew and not Gentile, that I am free and not a slave, that I am man and not a woman. Very devout, very religious, and we first read about him in Acts 8, just in passing that he is one of the observers of the death of Stephen, the first martyr. Then in verse 3, we read that Saul was going everywhere to devastate the church. He went from house to house dragging out both men and women to throw them into jail. And then he falls off the radar screen of Scripture until we get to Acts 9 and we read that he is on a mission. He is laser-focused on arresting these followers of the Way, these Jewish people who have begun to follow Jesus Christ. He is laser-focused on getting them arrested and getting them killed. Then we come to verse Now there was a believer in Damascus named Ananias. This is not the same Ananias who early in Acts lied about his giving, that sucker is already dead by now. We don t know a whole lot about this Ananias other than what we read here and in Acts 22. But we do know that he was a very devout believer and he was respected by the Jewish leadership even those who had not chosen to follow Christ the Messiah, and tradition holds it that he eventually became the Bishop of Damascus and that he was a martyr. That s church tradition, we don t know that for sure. But we see him here, and his name means God is great. That s very significant in this story. Let s read what happens. The Lord spoke to him in a vision, calling, Ananias! Yes, Lord! he replied.
3 Here s my pre-point. God speaks to Ananias and he is ready to go, Yes, Lord! What do You want to say to me? Here is my first observation. If God speaks to you in a vision, be very careful. We love the whole idea of special revelation from God, don t we? We love the Bible, but we would really like for God to show up in person or send an angel to give us a special message specifically for us, right? But, ya know what? When that happens in Scripture, it is usually not a good thing! Let s think about this, Isaiah! Mary is told that she is pregnant, by God. Explain that one. John gets a vision and sees the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. Ananias gets a vision and is told to go help a murderer. Every now and then, there is a good vision, like when Peter had a vision and bar-b-q got added to his diet! That s a good day! But that s not the majority of Scripture. That has nothing to do with relational scars or the rest of the message, it s just some information that I thought I would pass along. 11 The Lord said, Go over to Straight Street, to the house of Judas. When you get there, ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul. He is praying to me right now. 12 I have shown him a vision of a man named Ananias coming in and laying hands on him so he can see again. Yeah, great, and since he has already shown Paul the vision, there s no way out of it. It s done. 13 But Lord, exclaimed Ananias, I ve heard many people talk about the terrible things this man has done to the believers in Jerusalem! 14 And we hear that he is authorized by the leading priests to arrest everyone believer in Damascus. I think this is a fascinating response. Ananias does not say, Yes Lord, here I am, send me. Thank you for allowing me to suffer on your behalf. He is basically telling God this is crazy. He gives God a laundry list of the horror that he has caused and the scars that he has caused on the Christians and of the potential this guy has to be very dangerous. Here s my first encouragement to you today. If you have been on the receiving end of scars, if you have been wounded, it is ok to be honest with God about how you really feel about that. It is ok to express exactly what you re feeling. Healing never, ever comes from suppression, it always begins with that acknowledgement that you have been hurt. Several years ago when I was working on Capitol Hill, I was working on an amendment that a certain leader of a certain organization didn t like, and this individual decided to write a very nasty letter to my boss about what a terrible staffer I was, that I was awful at my job, I was not a good person and that I didn t know what I was doing. Well, this person had very little experience with the process because what that person didn t realize is that I got that letter before the Senator did. It came to my desk, I thought, Oh great Now, while I believed I had done the right thing. I wanted to go to the Senator and to my Chief of Staff and say, How do I respond? How do I make sure that you are displayed in a good light with this and how do I respond? I was very relieved when the Senator, who wasn t always known for being overly kind to his staff said, Well that s just a stupid letter. And what my Chief of Staff told me to do, he said, Heather, I want you to write two letters. The first letter I want you to write is to write exactly what you want to say back to this man. You curse all you want, you say exactly what you are feeling. And then make sure you tear that one up and then write the second letter that you ll actually send. So I think sometimes we just need to write some letters to God about how we really feel about stuff. You might think that doesn t sound very Christian, where is your Biblical basis for that? Well, let s flip over to some of the letters we find to God in the book of Psalms. In Psalm 3:7, this is what David says: Arise oh Lord, rescue me my God, slap all my enemies in the face, shatter the teeth of the wicked. I don t think I ve ever asked God to shatter anybody s teeth! You didn t learn that memory verse in Sunday School did you? Psalm 22:1: My God, my God, why have You forsaken me, why do You remain so distant, why do You ignore my cries for help? Psalm 35:1: Oh Lord, oppose those who oppose me, declare war on those who are attacking me. Then he goes on to ask God to disgrace them and humiliate them and blow them away like chaff and that sudden ruin would overtake them. David is very honest about what he is feeling. I think sometimes we know the right things that a Christian should say and the right things a Christian should pray, but what happens is we suppress what we are really feeling in the presence of God and the healing never comes. It s ok to be honest in the presence of God.
4 15 But the Lord said, Go, for Saul is my chosen instrument to take my message to the Gentiles and to kings, as well as to the people of Israel. 16 And I will show him how much he must suffer for me. Ok, this is almost like a slap in the face. This guy has been out killing people and now he is God s chosen instrument! What s up with that? What about all the people that he has killed? How will we explain this to those family members, to those friends? He is your chosen instrument? But then God slides this little statement in there, I will show him how much he must suffer for my sake. It s almost like He is telling Ananias, Look, let Me take care of it. You let Me take care of all the outcomes. Then the second thing you have to do when we ve been wounded is to trust that God sees more than we see. There is no formula to overcoming scars. There are no formulas for defining hope and healing. But there are some attitudes and actions here that we might find helpful when we are in these situations. You ve got to trust that God sees things that we don t. Today I was at a church in the area doing some training with small group leaders and I met a woman named Carol, and Carol is coming from a place of extreme brokenness where after years of marriage, her husband has decided he wanted a different life and walked away. She is now leading divorce care in small groups at her church. She says, I am going to find a way to get redemption, to let God write a story of redemption through this scar that I received. God sees more than we are able to see in the moment and sometimes we just have to trust Him and trust that He will write redemption into our stories. 17 So Ananias went and found Saul. He laid his hands on him and said, Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road, has sent me so that you might regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit. 18 Instantly something like scales fell from Saul s eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he got up and was baptized. 19 Afterward he ate some food and regained his strength. Two things here that Ananias does here to bring healing. First of all, I think it is interesting is that the first thing he says to him is brother Saul. He affirms a relationship. That doesn t mean he trusts him yet, it doesn t mean that there has been reconciliation yet, he doesn t even know for sure if this guy is really repentant or if he is going to turn around and kill all of them. But he affirms a relationship. There is an acceptance, an understanding, there is a hand reached out saying hey, I m going to accept you as one of us. Sometimes the gutsiest step we can take is to affirm a relationship when something in it has been broken. Even when we are on the receiving end of the wound, when we are on the receiving end of the scar, affirming the relationship can go light years to finding hope and healing. Here s the painful agony and irony, is that when we are wounded relationally, the defense mechanism to is pull away from all relationships, it s what we do, it comes naturally from instinct. But healing in relational scars can only come through relationship. I would encourage you today, if there is a gutsy step you need to take. Ananias moving toward Saul was gutsy, what gutsy step do you need to take to affirm a relationship to find healing in the midst of it? The next thing he does is, Ananias reverses the hurt. He baptizes Saul, he commissions Saul and Saul then finds his own healing in that process. The thing about relational scars is that we find ourselves on both sides. All of us have received relational scars and all of us have inflicted relational scars. So there is stuff to learn from both of these men. Ananias comes to him and baptizes him. And let me say here that you might find yourself on the Saul side of the equation tonight. I encourage you, if you have come into a relationship with Christ and you have never been baptized, I would encourage you to do that. We have a baptism coming up, the night before Easter Sunday, I would encourage you to be part of that. The other thing Ananias does is he basically gives the commissioning to Saul. We read over in Acts 22 when Saul actually gives his side of this whole story, we read in verse 14 where Ananias says to him, The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will and to see the righteous one and hear him speak. You are to take his message everywhere telling the whole world what you have seen and heard. Now why delay? Get up and be baptized, have your sins washed away, calling on the name of the Lord. Ananias is
5 healing scars by having the guts to step out and say I am going to bring wholeness to you spiritually, physically and relationally. And he lays his hands on Saul s eyes and it says something scales fell and he found healing. Ananias was willing to make a gutsy move. He was honest with God, he didn t back off from that, he was honest with God about how he really felt about the situation, but he trusted that God saw something that he couldn t see. He affirmed a relationship and then he came and he reversed the whole cycle of hurt that was happening. Let s flip the coin and look at Saul, because Saul is also scarred in this story. One thing we find is that when we inflicted scars on other people, it scars us as well, and when God has to come in and do surgery on our hearts, sometimes there is scar tissue there. Saul was blinded, it says something like scales fell from his eyes when Ananias touched him. Jesus had to reorient Saul s vision. He had scars that needed to be dealt with. There are a couple of things that I see Saul doing that could be helpful to us. First of all, he has vision, he is blinded, he has a warrant in his pocket to go kill Christians or arrest Christians and God tells him to go on into the city. He is blind, he had to have his companions lead him. So here s big bad Saul with his big bad warrant to kill and he is being led into the city by his friend with his tail tucked between his legs. Then he has to wait there for three days before Ananias shows up. What was going through his head? What was he thinking? What was he feeling? Was he nervous, did he have any idea what was going to happen? He was willing to wait, he was willing to wait on the forgiveness. He was willing to wait on the reconciliation. Here s what I find fascinating about this whole story. If it wasn t for these two men having the guts to take the steps toward one another in the midst of the hurt, we wouldn t have a third of the New Testament today. Paul wrote a third of the New Testament. If Ananias hadn t been willing to take that step, if Saul hadn t been willing to take that step, we wouldn t have a third of the New Testament today. The other thing is that Saul, because he preached the gospel to the Gentiles, to the non- Jewish people, if it hadn t been for them making that move toward one another to heal relational scars, most of us would not be here worshipping Jesus today. You don t know what could happen if you just take that one step toward forgiveness, that one step toward reconciliation. Listen to what Saul wrote, later in his life, the same guy that said, God thank you that I am Jewish and not Gentile, that I am free and not a slave, that I am man and not woman. In the book of Galatians, he says, There is now no longer Jew and Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male or female, for all of you are one in Christ. All of a sudden he is preaching a radical reconciliation, a counter-intuitive and a counter-cultural move toward community. What could happen if we dare to risk the step toward the very person that has hurt us or toward the person that we have hurt? In this series, we ve been showing you stories of people, we ve got one to show you today that shows a real life Saul and a real life Ananias. I was a youth pastor for about 15 years and he was the only one who physically attacked me. My dad began cheating on my mom and my parents separated when I was 8 years old. It was a bitter, ugly divorce. There was a lot of contention and a lot of fights, a lot of arguments that put my brother in between both of them. So I dealt with a lot of that, and during that time, my mom became verbally and physically abusive towards my brother and me. She started saying I was going to be nothing in life, she was always telling me how stupid I was and how much of a brat I was, so I took a lot of that anger. Then she became very physical toward me, if I did anything wrong, she would pull out the paddle or pull out the belt and just start hitting me, not even thinking, just hitting me with it. Again, I had no idea how to process any of this, so I started turning to drugs at age 11. I acted out in many ways, I acted out in that anger. I didn t care who I hurt, I didn t care who I ran over. I became a bully, I just became a very dark and angry person and I began using more drugs, I began using heroin. I drank more and I got to the point where none of that was working, so I started contemplating suicide. There were times where I would take bottles of Tylenol and I had to get my stomach pumped a couple of times. There were times where I stood on the balcony of my dad s apartment building and I looked over wanting to jump, but somebody was always there to pull me off that balcony.
6 Chris s brother worked for our church, First Assembly as a custodian, and he introduced me to Chris. Chris was in the 10 th grade going to T.C. Williams High School. He was suicidal. One time he was hanging off of his balcony, and he tried drinking nail polish remover. He was one of those kids you weren t sure was going to make it past his 18 th birthday. To be honest with you, Chris says I never gave up on him, but I ll tell you there was this one day where he was trying to beat up one of our youth leaders and Chris grabbed me by the shirt and picked me up and threw me on the car, and I looked at him and I said these words, Chris, do you know what you re doing? Chris dropped me, ran away and thank God he punched a tree instead of my face. But at that time, I thought is this guy too dangerous for our youth leaders, for our church, for me? The fact is that God never gave up on Chris. We were always there to love on him and pray for him. One week we had a group called YWAM, Youth With a Mission, helping out the youth group and they took Chris on a retreat, and at that retreat, God delivered him from a lot of the hurt and pain, and God delivered him from depression. He was pretty messed up but he came back and started a walk with Christ. He later became one of my best youth leaders, then the rest is history. I tell people all the time that you are supposed to forgive others right away. Forgiveness, there is no option. We must forgive. And the forgiveness came very quickly and easily. But we don t have to trust people when we get burned. People have to earn the trust back. I think that s what happened. I loved him, I forgave him, but I didn t put a lot of stock or trust in him until I saw fruit. When I saw the fruit of his growth, then we were able to trust him with more things. I just didn t know how to respond to love. I had never had anybody to love me like that, but until I got to that point where I looked in the mirror and I knew that there was a God who loved me and was willing to give himself up for me, it radically changed my life. Do you guys appreciate Pastor Chris? This is an awkward transition, but, do you know how porcupines mate? Do you know how porcupines share intimate space with one another? What I have learned is that the female, who is the smaller of the two and arguably the one most likely to be hurt, flattens her quills. For whatever it is worth, do you want to know what a baby porcupine is called? A porcupet! Isn t that awesome! I ve been laughing about that all weekend. Ok, so she flattens her quills. We are all prickly people, we ve all been wounded and we all have the potential to wound. The question is what quills do you need to lay down today? My guess is that when we leave here, all of us have a phone call we need to make, have a letter we need to write, have an to send, have a lunch or coffee we need to set up, either because like Saul, we need to take a gutsy step toward someone that we have hurt, or like Ananias, we need to take a gutsy step toward someone who has hurt us or has the potential to hurt us, and move slowly to take the first step toward reconciliation. Here s the last thing I want to encourage you with. I ll close with this. You cannot find reconciliation outside of Christ being at the center of it. Both of these men saw Jesus before encountering one another. Both of them had visions of Christ before they sought reconciliation with one another. We ve got to see Jesus, we have got to have a relationship with Him first. Here s the deal, no one, no one, understands relational scars like Jesus Christ does. Jesus, as He was receiving physical scars in his body as He hung on the cross, crucified by the very people He came to love. Simultaneously his father turning his back on him, Jesus gets relational scars, and if we want to have any hope of finding healing in our lives from the relational scars that we have received and inflicted, we have got to find a relationship with Jesus. I love what it says in II Corinthians 5:18: All of this is a gift from God who brought us back to Himself through Christ and God has given us this task of reconciling people to Him, for God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, no longer counting people s sins against them and He gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. So we are Christ s ambassadors. God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, come back to God. For God made Christ who never sinned to be the offering for our sins so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
7 If you have never done that, I beg you, come to Jesus. Talk to somebody before you leave here, be reconciled to God first and then seek to be reconciled to those around you. God thank You so much for the reconciling work that your Son did on the cross for us. God we come to You today as people who are broken because we have received relational scars from other people and we have inflicted relational scars on others. God we need You, we need healing, we need to be able to be honest before You, we need to be vulnerable before You and we need to guts and the courage to take a risky step toward someone. Father help us today to flatten our quills and take the one step toward hope and healing. Help us, in Jesus Name, Amen.
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